F.A.Premier Reserve League - South
             White Hart Lane, N17,
         Wednesday 2nd May 2001 k.o.7pm.

           SPURS     V    ARSENAL
      (White/Blue)      (Red/White)
           4-4-2           4-4-2

           1(1)          0 (0)

          Ian Walker 1 Alex Manninger
   Maurizio Consorti 2 Lee Canoville
           Neil Lacy 3 Liam Chilvers
         John Piercy 4 Guy Demel
      Ian Hillier(C) 5 Ben Chorley
        Ciaran Toner 6 Matthew Upson(C)
         Dave McEwan 7 Alberto Mendez
        John Jackson 8 Greg Lincoln
     Steven Ferguson 9 Tomas Danilevicius
    Yannick Kamanan 10 Graham Barrett
Matthew Etherington 11 Jermaine Pennant

      James Quilter 12 Nicky Nicolau
        (5)73Mins.
        Gavin Kelly 13 Stuart Taylor
Luca DiGiuliantonio 14 Rohan Ricketts
			(4)60Mins.
    Ghyslain Vedeux 15 Jerome Thomas
			(9)71Mins.
        George Snee 16 Jo Osei-Kuffour
        (4)85Mins.     (11)60Mins.
                    17 Jermaine Aliadiere

Booked - Piercy 35 - tackle from behind, Demel 39 - late, Chorley 71 - tackle from behind

On a cool evening a large crowd of over 300 (I think there were nearer 1,000 - Ed)including listees Bruce and Elaine Lewis, Paul Smith and Jim Duggan saw an entertaining encounter with the mob from down the road. Glen Hoddle passed us after the game making a quick getaway, maybe looking at the Reserves for Saturday? The team lined up with Hillier partnering Toner at the back with Consorti at right back and Lacy at left. Piercy controlled things in the middle with Jackson along side to make the runs. McEwan played on the right and Etherington on the left. Matty saw a lot of the ball in this game and split his time between running with it and passing to a team-mate.

Spurs started the first half on top and were the better side playing a passing game and dominating the centre of the park. McEwan met Etherington's centre at the near post to beat Manninger at his near post in the 11th minute to take the lead. Both defences protected their keepers well although Manninger had more work to do than Walker. Arsenal depended a lot on Pennant for most of their attacks and it was easy to see why they poached him from Notts.County. Mendez made a couple of penetrating runs matched by McEwan at the other end, but the main feature of the half was the passing of Piercy and Etherington.

Arsenal improved in the second half and provided some attempts on Walkers goal as they threatened to score. Spurs responded well and Kamanan got physical once to get past Chorley before producing a good cross. Chorley was booked later for clattering him in return. Both keepers produced great saves during the half to prevent goals from Danilevicius and Piercy.

Hillier looked to have had a knock when replaced by Quilter as we settled for the one goal and shut up shop. Snee came on for Piercy and played on the right with McEwan moving into the middle. Spurs deserved to win tonight and hopefully they can go to Highbury next week and repeat the result as they move to a point behind the league leaders Derby having played a game more.

Ray Lo